Factors Affecting the State Official’s Perspectives towards e-Procurement: A Case Study on the Budget Division, Office of Budget and Finance, Royal Thai Police

Abstract

This research purports to examine the government official’s perspectives towards the eprocurement system and to perform a comparative analysis study between personal factors and official perspectives upon the discussed e-procurement matter. The research contains the total of 86 study subjects, all of which are drawn from official personnel working under the Budget Division, Office of Budget and Finance of the Royal Thai Police during the 2016 fiscal year. Research tools employed within this study include uses of questionnaires and relevant analytic tools, namely, Frequency, Percentage, Average Mean (μ), Standard Deviation (σ), t-test, and One-Way ANOVA. The findings reveal that: (1) government official’s opinions towards the e-procurement system are generally ranked at high level. Upon considering each aspect individually, it is discovered that with regards to the implementation and process of running e-procurement purchasing system along with the personnel’s understanding towards such topic, these three factors are identified to be at high level. On the other hand, the electronic communication of the e-procurement system is generally ranked as low; (2) a comparative study between personal factors and those affecting the bureaucratic official’s performances on e-procurement reveal that sex, marital status, education background, and duration of service do not contribute to differences of opinion upon such issue. In addition, when considering different factors of age, position ranking, and monthly income, these factors generate a statistically significant difference at.05.